Consumers are becoming more aware of both the urgency of climate change and the complexities of the supply chain. Companies should be prepared for consumers to start calculating supply chain sustainability into their purchasing decisions.
In partnership, FreightWaves and Convoy recently released a report on the awareness and impact of empty miles.
MVMNT’s complete freight management platform gives you control over your freight without the disproportionate cost of a traditional TMS.
Going green isn’t just about electrification.
TriumphPay takes the hassle out of carrier payments, allowing brokers to focus on what they do best.
Currently, 87 million metric tons of that can be traced to non-revenue—or empty—miles.
As shippers move to digitize their documents and automate their processes, they should focus on making sure both efficiency and accuracy benchmarks are met. One document processing error can sideline an entire shipment, undermining profitability and customer satisfaction.
Along with product controls and safety checks, all-risk coverage helps Paragon transport Mexican seafood to the United States without worry.
Truckers used as ‘eyes and ears’ to assist law enforcement.
According to the most recent U.N. climate change report, the impacts of global warming are becoming more widespread and severe across the world.
While innovation in the autonomous space is moving at breakneck speed, Locomation has devised a way to help trucking companies re-engineer their operating models to begin seeing major efficiency gains even before they deploy autonomous trucks.
Many carriers have turned to technology in order to reduce the risk of serious lawsuits while simultaneously lowering insurance premiums. Digital safety management solutions are on the rise, and these tools can offer carriers the transparency and visibility they need in order to create a safer fleet.
In a constrained market environment like the one seen over the past couple of years, shippers are always looking to cut costs and gain more bargaining power. That makes granular insights more important than ever.
As the industry continues to move away from clunky legacy solutions, more companies are choosing solutions based on user interface. While an intuitive interface is important, this can sometimes come at the expense of a strong back-end product.
Companies like ACI Logistix are using this broader approach to delivery as leverage in building their businesses.
Mexico’s wild west freight landscape is quickly being tamed by forward-thinking companies utilizing visibility technologies and all-risk insurance solutions.
Decreasing turnover rates and making companies more efficient requires job transparency to pull in the right people and maintaining a constant state of innovation to attract more people.
Cloud-based solutions – think Uber and Airbnb – have quickly overtaken their more traditional competitors in other industries. In time, a similar trend will likely be observed in transportation and logistics.
Carriers must pay fuel taxes to states they travel through, but the process can be complicated and time-consuming due to the various jurisdictions. Even a simple filing mistake can trigger an IFTA audit and bring unwanted scrutiny upon the carrier.
Given the strong head winds they’re about to face, brokers should urgently consider making changes, to the way they’re conducting business.
As parcel demand has skyrocketed, shippers have obviously been faced with serious capacity issues.
It is not likely that routing guides are going to become extinct, but they will be smaller, more shallow and very much digital.
“There’s no other solution out there that has done this,” said Parade CEO and co-founder Anthony Sutardja. “We have really led the way in defining digital bidding and digital booking across our partner capacity networks.”
Companies rely on a wide variety of partners to handle their invoice auditing, including brokers and third-party freight pay companies. This approach can be risky, as these folks are not typically invoice audit experts, increasing the chance that inconsistencies and other issues will slip through the cracks.
Autonomous trucks have garnered a significant amount of attention during this transition thanks to their impressive environmental benefits and inherent ability to solve a variety of industry ills. While technological efforts to get these vehicles on the road have progressed quickly, regulations surrounding their use have been slower to follow.
Expanding highways can come with a variety of other unintended consequences, too, such as congestion off of highways in nearby cities, as well as air pollution.
Over the last decade, XPO Logistics has spent hundreds of millions of dollars investing in the development of advanced transportation technology with the use of “the brightest technology minds out there.”
Reliance Partners’ Graham Gonzales joins the show to discuss Reliance’s RUBI Program (Reliance Usage-Based Insurance), coverage that can be booked on a per-load basis.
This swift rise in online shoppers has stressed an already-taxed industry, increasing the demands on less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers significantly.
Weather disruptions have always been common across the supply chain. With climate change-induced severe weather conditions on the rise, logistics companies should expect – and plan for – even more challenging conditions in the future.
Echo’s CIO aims to further tech innovations, including API improvements for shippers and carriers.
This report provides breakdowns of capacity, volumes and rates as we navigate the post-holiday season.
Many automation solutions companies are penetrating the industry to remove supply chain friction, improve efficiency and job satisfaction.
Summar focuses on helping small carriers with one to 30 trucks sustain and grow their businesses.
Small and midsize factoring companies are able to achieve a competitive advantage, which many previously thought was impossible without millions of dollars of investment.
Technology companies such as Sibros, a hardware-agnostic connected vehicle platform company, are the reason vehicle owners aren’t making weekly trips to the dealership and why maintenance on modern software-defined vehicles is becoming increasingly easier.
In order to take advantage of different RFP options, shippers must have access to the data they need to determine which lanes need to be repriced and when. Success requires coupling decision-making with efficient technology.
A California high school truck driving instructor has revamped his curriculum with a fitness app to emphasize the benefits of staying active and eating well.
It is important to recognize that the introduction of autonomous vehicles is not the beginning of the end for drivers.
Amid high rates and tight capacity, fleets must make do with what they have and minimize errors that can lead to significant cargo losses.
Parade garners impressive support from both Silicon Valley and Freight Alley.
The European Union announced this month that it will begin to label some nuclear power and natural gas plants, under certain conditions, as sustainable investments or “transitional green energy sources.”
Driving a big rig isn’t a vacation, nor is it as flexible as one would expect — there’s a job to do.
In the absence of shipper’s interest cargo insurance to protect the cargo owner against financial loss, carrier’s liability is all that remains, and cargo owners are often disappointed by the all-too-common misconception that the carrier will fully cover their loss.
This white paper reviews peak season dynamics and what we can expect this quarter.
Becoming an independent agent can provide workers with the autonomy and independence they crave, but knowing where to begin can be difficult
On-demand training and live sessions cover every aspect of today’s LTL sector to help share valuable supply chain industry expertise and insights.
Axle Logistics has spent the last 10 years perfecting its services and expects, in its second decade, to become a billion dollar organization, which it is projected to reach by 2024.
Raul Saucedo, president and CEO of SBGroup, explains why Mexico is a good choice for your next international shipments.
“Right now it seems like everyone is flying blind, then playing hot potato by giving it to the next party,” Kempisty said.
Sustainability leaders like Convoy are advocating for the freight industry to focus its attention on working to decrease carbon emissions and eliminate waste.
While major parcel carriers offer a one-size-fits-all service under the guise of simplification, ACI Logistix applies a consultative approach.
By gathering this information at pickup, DDC Sync is enabling near-time logistics planning and cross-team communication that can be made before a truck ever makes it back to the terminal.
‘Safe co-pilot’ PlusDrive makes trucking safer, more fuel efficient and comfortable for drivers
Shippers may benefit from limiting the number of partners they work with in a loose market, but this exclusionary approach has become a serious — and seriously expensive — problem as capacity has tightened and rates have climbed to record highs.
As competition for truck drivers heats up, fleets need to take steps to improve their recruiting, hiring and onboarding processes to find candidates and get them into trucks.
Current economic metrics prove that something extremely bad is happening to our economy, which has the potential to destroy everything we’ve worked for.
In affiliation with Ryder, FreightWaves’ data team recaps Q4 and highlights the trends that are likely to have an impact in the first half of this year.
Port congestion has been top of mind for logistics companies over the past year. Consumer demand has increased sharply over the past 18 months and, at the same time, more […]
These days, seasonality has become nothing short of unpredictable.
The continued expansion of mobile and social purchasing is helping sustain the market growth in e-commerce, which should continue to drive the demand for freighters.
Centerboard’s newest API solutions are designed to provide customizable integration for shippers and technology providers.
Reliance Partners’ Safety Team is set to roll out a Trucking 101 series to tackle the skills every trucker should know but hasn’t been taught.
Shippers are buoyed by the promise of falling rates in the coming months, but this optimistic outlook may put even more strain on rate negotiations in the meantime.
The data contained within the report shares breakdowns of capacity, volumes and rates, along with the broader economic conditions that are influencing them.
In a time when many trucking companies struggle to retain and hire drivers, the U.S. Xpress recruiting team is achieving double-digit, quarter-over-quarter hiring growth.
PGT Trucking channels efforts and funds into two partnerships that will infuse labor market with skilled logistics technicians.
Manufacturers are feeling the pressure to up their production big time, and that means finding ways to get around continued hurdles like shortages.
Clean air regulators have to play the long game with short-term updates, the latest of which comes from New Jersey.
Renewable natural gas (RNG) is the leading low carbon solution that helps trucking companies and shippers reduce their carbon footprint and meet their sustainability goals.
Leveraging its nationwide network of more than 7,000 attorneys, TVC has a high success rate reducing or dismissing citations.
SMC³ has fully embraced the FreightTech age and plans to continue innovating its LTL pricing and bidding tools in 2022.
Marketing and sustainability go hand in hand in the success of any organization, and the balance of the two in the media can widely affect the perception of the organization.
What today’s shippers look for in a logistics provider is rapidly shifting, and if they’re smart, so are those providers.
Because it costs more money than it’s worth to return the item to its vendor for reuse, returns often end up in landfills.
The American Trucking Associations (ATA) predicts the industry will be a record 80,000 drivers short in the next year.
Driverless technology is maturing, and companies competing in the autonomous trucking market are moving beyond research and development to focus on getting their product to market.
Immediate Past ATA Chair Sherri Garner Brumbaugh joins the show to discuss ways to introduce trucking to younger drivers, especially to more women.
Ever-tightening capacity may continue to snare domestic and cross-border shippers that haven’t planned accordingly. That’s where partnering with the leading 3PL for cross-border freight is needed.
Much of the supply chain stress stems from a lack of labor, infrastructure and the widespread lack of technology.
Reliance Partners’ Mark Vickers chats with NUAGE Logistics President Ryan Jones about Borderless Coverages’ game-changing All-Risk insurance.
Lean BPO offers back-office and customer support services tailored to the needs of each client.
Players in the FreightTech space have continued to thrive despite challenging market conditions. Second-generation FreightTech startup Emerge led the pack in growth and ingenuity throughout 2021.
With 2021’s elevated rates and strained capacity, many shippers are holding out hope for significant rebalancing in the new year. They may need to wait a little longer, however, as experts suggest current market conditions could last well into 2022.
Organic growth also has been key to the growth and continued success of LGSTX Services.
The stress of the pandemic made it crystal clear that supermarket supply chains will need to be streamlined and optimized to continue to meet strong consumer demand, especially during unpredictable and volatile times.
The major differentiator between PGT as a cross-border carrier and other carriers is its door-to-door operation.
New customs formalities will require companies moving goods between the U.K. and the EU to quickly become familiar with new systems and technologies to keep their shipments flowing.
Reducing empty miles will have a bigger impact on reducing carbon footprint compared to electrification and alternative fuels until 2034.
Many LTL carriers have lowered caps from 16 linear feet to 12 linear feet, either denying freight that exceeds those limits or instituting punitive pricing measures that make moving it unaffordable.
Federal rules mandate the collection and maintenance of driver qualification files, but for fleets, managing this process can be cumbersome and fraught with potential liability.
Gatego’s platform has an interface for both shippers and carriers that allows both parties to keep track of check-ins and yard inventory across multiple yards.
Locomation earned high marks on a third-party environmental impact report conducted by Boundless Impact Research and Analytics last month.
After a couple of oddball years, shippers and carriers alike are anxious to see how the market rebalances — or doesn’t — after the new year.
Full customs formalities will be required on goods moving into the U.K. from the EU after the new year. If you’re not prepared, expect congestion, delays and learning curves.
Relying on a single data source to predict pricing is risky in the best of times. Right now, brokers and shippers are already facing high — and highly variable — rates. A lack of true insight in the mix only makes the situation more chaotic.
Reliance Partners’ Brian Runnels reacts to Central Freight’s closure and shares his thoughts on the drivers’ next steps on FreightWaves’ WHAT THE TRUCK?!?.
CCO Sean Burke shares results from Echo’s recent survey on shipper sentiment for the RFP season.
The COVID-19 response, labor shortages and strained capacity will continue into the New Year, but there is hope. Jim Monkmeyer, President of Transportation & LLP, DHL Supply Chain, shares some advice on how to retain talent, where to invest and how to stay positive during this unprecedented time.
It’s these kinds of advances that will push the industry toward complete visibility and decarbonization.
